Tod Slaughter

from Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, UK

Artwork for The ShowdownImage of Tod Slaughter

Biography

Tod Slaughter took to the stage in 1905 and made a name for himself as the star villain of numerous Victorian melodramas which he toured around England. Many of these were filmed cheaply in the 30s and 40s by quota-quickie tzar George King. His ham performances are perfectly suited to the material and the best of his films give the impression that if the Victorians could have made features they would have looked like this

Timeline

1954Aged 69

  • Poster for Puzzle Corner Number Fourteen

    Sweeney Todd

1952Aged 67

  • Poster for King of the Underworld

    Terence Reilly

  • Poster for The Case of the Green Eye

    Terence Reilly

  • Poster for A Ghost for Sale

    Caretaker

  • Poster for Murder at the Grange

    Patrick Reilly aka Clarence Beacham

  • Poster for The Case of the Scarlet Letters

    Terence Reilly

  • Poster for Reilly at Bay

    Terrence Reilly

  • Poster for Dark Passage

    Terence Reilly

  • Poster for The Showdown

    Terence Reilly

1950Aged 65

1948Aged 63

  • Poster for The Greed of William Hart

    William Hart

1946Aged 61

  • Poster for The Curse of the Wraydons

    The Chief

1945Aged 60

  • Poster for Bothered by a Beard

    Sweeney Todd

1940Aged 55

  • Poster for Crimes at the Dark House

    The False Sir Percival Glyde

1939Aged 54

  • Poster for The Face at the Window

    Chevalier Lucio del Gardo

1938Aged 53

  • Poster for Pots of Plots

    Tod Slaughter

  • Poster for Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror

    Michael Larron

1937Aged 52

1936Aged 51

  • Poster for Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Sweeney Todd

  • Poster for The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

    Stephen Hawke

  • Poster for Tod Slaughter at Home

    Tod Slaughter

1935Aged 50

  • Poster for Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn

    Squire William Corder

1926Aged 41

  • Poster for London After Dark

    (Unknown)

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